We have the house we want for our first primary residence picked out, which should provide us with decent instant equity, but going through credit repair to be able to qualify for a FHA 203k mortgage.Ultimately, we'd like to build a small rental portfolio to cover personal income requirements, and start an organization to provide assistance to veterans and their families in the areas of transitional housing, needed home repair, and job training.

Like many others I am looking to transition slowly into RE investing, wholesaling in particular (to start).

If you know West Seattle, California Ave, 35th Ave, and 16th Ave define transitional zones in values.

I am trying to make an amicable transition, since I hear my tenant just moved out, and created some damages.

Agree with Phillip, ease in, do RE when you have time, when you get the hang of it start devoting more time to RE to make the transition.

Took a little over a year to hit my groove, but I did 15 deals the second year and haven't looked back.I feel I learned enough that if I were to start all over with what I know now it would likely only take 6 months to get established and running smoothly.

I know a lot of guys are transitioning from flipping to wholesaling and prehabbing.

I'm currently an hvac contractor in Austin area, which can make winters a little harder to profit since they don't exist around here, so smoothing out hills and valleys is also another goal to real estate investing.

Pull a transition or forced air floor register and see what the tile was set on.

This is an urban, transitional area which started making a comeback but was clipped in 2008 collapse.